Like in most non-gendered categories at the Oscars, the writing awards have traditionally been dominated by male screenwriters, some of them actors who have already earned attention in the acting categories. We seldom see women having the same success, with only Ruth Gordon and Emma Thompson landing Oscar bids for both acting and writing. Yet, we now have a potential third member of this elite group, Maggie Gyllenhaal, who wrote and directed her first feature, “The Lost Daughter,” a film that continues to have a presence at major precursor awards.
Gyllenhaal is in second place for a prospective Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the Oscars, according to the latest Gold Derby odds. She has racked up more than a dozen nominations from various critics groups for her screenplay, including the Critics Choice Awards, and even won at the Gotham Awards. The film’s flashback structure and complex perspective on motherhood...
Gyllenhaal is in second place for a prospective Best Adapted Screenplay nomination at the Oscars, according to the latest Gold Derby odds. She has racked up more than a dozen nominations from various critics groups for her screenplay, including the Critics Choice Awards, and even won at the Gotham Awards. The film’s flashback structure and complex perspective on motherhood...
- 1/21/2022
- by Kevin Jacobsen
- Gold Derby
by Cláudio Alves
Despite starring in two Best Picture winners and many other movies blessed by plentiful love from AMPAS, Christopher Plummer always struggled to be recognized by the Academy. While the actor earned a lot of golden accolades and nominations for his TV work, including two Emmys, his cinematic efforts rarely caught the attention of awards-giving bodies. It was only in the twilight of his career that such fate changed but that doesn't mean he wasn't deserving before. For example, in 1965, the year of The Sound of Music, I'd have happily nominated him both for his stern star turn as Captain von Trapp and for the malicious sensuality he brings to Inside Daisy Clover.
Still, the closest he ever came to an Oscar nomination pre-2009 was for Michael Mann's The Insider...
Despite starring in two Best Picture winners and many other movies blessed by plentiful love from AMPAS, Christopher Plummer always struggled to be recognized by the Academy. While the actor earned a lot of golden accolades and nominations for his TV work, including two Emmys, his cinematic efforts rarely caught the attention of awards-giving bodies. It was only in the twilight of his career that such fate changed but that doesn't mean he wasn't deserving before. For example, in 1965, the year of The Sound of Music, I'd have happily nominated him both for his stern star turn as Captain von Trapp and for the malicious sensuality he brings to Inside Daisy Clover.
Still, the closest he ever came to an Oscar nomination pre-2009 was for Michael Mann's The Insider...
- 2/11/2021
- by Cláudio Alves
- FilmExperience
Update: “Beginners” director Mike Mills has spoken to IndieWire about the passing of Christopher Plummer, who won an Academy Award for his role in the film. Plummer played Hal Fields, an aging patriarch who comes out to his son late in life, and chooses to live his final years as an out gay man.
“It was a great honor to work with Christopher, to be in conversation with such a dedicated artist,” Mike Mills said. “In his 80s when we met, I marveled at his intense curiosity, hunger to make something vulnerable, and his need to challenge himself. Christopher was both dignified and mischievous, deeply cultured and always looking for a good laugh. As he said about playing my father who was dying ‘not an ounce of self pity,’ and that’s how he was. I’ll always be indebted to Christopher for honoring the story of an older man...
“It was a great honor to work with Christopher, to be in conversation with such a dedicated artist,” Mike Mills said. “In his 80s when we met, I marveled at his intense curiosity, hunger to make something vulnerable, and his need to challenge himself. Christopher was both dignified and mischievous, deeply cultured and always looking for a good laugh. As he said about playing my father who was dying ‘not an ounce of self pity,’ and that’s how he was. I’ll always be indebted to Christopher for honoring the story of an older man...
- 2/5/2021
- by Ryan Lattanzio
- Indiewire
Christopher Plummer, the Canadian-born Shakespearean actor who starred in films including “The Sound of Music” and “Beginners,” died on Friday morning at his home in Connecticut. He was 91.
“Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words,” said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager of 46 years. “He was a national treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”
An imposing theatrical presence with a well-cultivated, resonant voice, that critic John Simon once observed, “in its chamois mode, can polish mirrors,” Plummer was best known for playing Captain von Trapp in the Oscar-winning musical “The Sound of Music.” He also won an Oscar in 2012 for his supporting turn in the film “Beginners,...
“Chris was an extraordinary man who deeply loved and respected his profession with great old fashion manners, self deprecating humor and the music of words,” said Lou Pitt, his longtime friend and manager of 46 years. “He was a national treasure who deeply relished his Canadian roots. Through his art and humanity, he touched all of our hearts and his legendary life will endure for all generations to come. He will forever be with us.”
An imposing theatrical presence with a well-cultivated, resonant voice, that critic John Simon once observed, “in its chamois mode, can polish mirrors,” Plummer was best known for playing Captain von Trapp in the Oscar-winning musical “The Sound of Music.” He also won an Oscar in 2012 for his supporting turn in the film “Beginners,...
- 2/5/2021
- by Richard Natale
- Variety Film + TV
by Nathaniel R
Who do you suppose was in second place for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1965? We suspect Shelley Winters won in a landslide for her monster mom but perhaps Peggy Wood's Mother Superior was the runner up since The Sound of Music was so massive. What'cha think? We've noticed on the Smackdown posts that y'all don't really comment about the conversation of the podcast itself but just the write-up / blurb portion. We hope you're listening. The panelists (mwah) were super fun and lively. Here is the podcast again embedded below for your pleasure.
Podcast: 1 hour and 15 minutes
00.01 - Introductions: Spencer Garrett, Kayleigh Donaldson, Baby Clyde, Kevin Jacobsen, and Terence Johnson
06:30 - Othello , Laurence Olivier's "blackface", minstrelsy in that era, Dame Maggie Smith in her youth and today, and the documentary Tea with the Dames
27:00 - Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue -- some people hate the performance,...
Who do you suppose was in second place for the Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 1965? We suspect Shelley Winters won in a landslide for her monster mom but perhaps Peggy Wood's Mother Superior was the runner up since The Sound of Music was so massive. What'cha think? We've noticed on the Smackdown posts that y'all don't really comment about the conversation of the podcast itself but just the write-up / blurb portion. We hope you're listening. The panelists (mwah) were super fun and lively. Here is the podcast again embedded below for your pleasure.
Podcast: 1 hour and 15 minutes
00.01 - Introductions: Spencer Garrett, Kayleigh Donaldson, Baby Clyde, Kevin Jacobsen, and Terence Johnson
06:30 - Othello , Laurence Olivier's "blackface", minstrelsy in that era, Dame Maggie Smith in her youth and today, and the documentary Tea with the Dames
27:00 - Shelley Winters in A Patch of Blue -- some people hate the performance,...
- 10/12/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
The Supporting Actress Smackdown series picks an Oscar vintage and explores...
The Nominees 1965 was all about the Julies, Christie and Andrews, headlining the years biggest hits but both were located in the lead actress category. When some of the year's most lauded supporting actress turned up in films Oscar wasn't interested in they selected quite an odd list from which films they were looking at, still missing one very obvious great choice. Recent Oscar winner Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue) and recent nominee Joyce Redman (Othello) were invited back and future Dame and Oscar darling Maggie Smith (Othello) was invited for the first time. TV regular Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music) and a longtime Hollywood screenwriter Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover), nabbing her first nomination in an acting category, were also chosen. The resulting shortlist of characters included a nun, a child abuser, two women doomed by hateful petty men,...
The Nominees 1965 was all about the Julies, Christie and Andrews, headlining the years biggest hits but both were located in the lead actress category. When some of the year's most lauded supporting actress turned up in films Oscar wasn't interested in they selected quite an odd list from which films they were looking at, still missing one very obvious great choice. Recent Oscar winner Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue) and recent nominee Joyce Redman (Othello) were invited back and future Dame and Oscar darling Maggie Smith (Othello) was invited for the first time. TV regular Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music) and a longtime Hollywood screenwriter Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover), nabbing her first nomination in an acting category, were also chosen. The resulting shortlist of characters included a nun, a child abuser, two women doomed by hateful petty men,...
- 10/11/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
A reminder that you have until Thursday October 8th (that's coming up so fast) to get your votes in before the next Smackdown. Send in your votes (1 to 5 hearts for each lady) by October 8th. Easy!
• Ruth Gordon, the 'crazy' mom, Inside Daisy Clover Amazon
• Joyce Redman, the help, Othello - YouTube
• Maggie Smith, the long-suffering wife, Othello - YouTube
• Shelley Winters, the 'monster' mom, A Patch of Blue- Amazon
• Peggy Wood, the reverend mother, The Sound of Music - Disney+...
• Ruth Gordon, the 'crazy' mom, Inside Daisy Clover Amazon
• Joyce Redman, the help, Othello - YouTube
• Maggie Smith, the long-suffering wife, Othello - YouTube
• Shelley Winters, the 'monster' mom, A Patch of Blue- Amazon
• Peggy Wood, the reverend mother, The Sound of Music - Disney+...
- 10/6/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Each month before the Supporting Actress Smackdown Nick Taylor selects performances for an alternate ballot...
Of the Golden Globes’ Supporting Actress nominees in 1965, three of their five were transplanted to Oscar’s lineup. Globe winner Ruth Gordon in Inside Daisy Clover, Joyce Redman in Othello, and Peggy Wood in The Sound of Music (who we all basically agree was not the best option from her movie) all made the cut, while Redman’s co-star Maggie Smith was imported from the Globes' Lead Actress-Drama category. Only Shelley Winters, who wound up winning the damn Oscar for A Patch of Blue, failed to show up anywhere at the Globes. The two Globe nominees left out to pasture come Oscar nomination morning were Nbr winner Joan Blondell in The Cincinnati Kid and never-winning Academy regular Thelma Ritter in Boeing Boeing. Both of the unlucky actresses co-starred in films that were blanked by the Academy completely.
Of the Golden Globes’ Supporting Actress nominees in 1965, three of their five were transplanted to Oscar’s lineup. Globe winner Ruth Gordon in Inside Daisy Clover, Joyce Redman in Othello, and Peggy Wood in The Sound of Music (who we all basically agree was not the best option from her movie) all made the cut, while Redman’s co-star Maggie Smith was imported from the Globes' Lead Actress-Drama category. Only Shelley Winters, who wound up winning the damn Oscar for A Patch of Blue, failed to show up anywhere at the Globes. The two Globe nominees left out to pasture come Oscar nomination morning were Nbr winner Joan Blondell in The Cincinnati Kid and never-winning Academy regular Thelma Ritter in Boeing Boeing. Both of the unlucky actresses co-starred in films that were blanked by the Academy completely.
- 10/1/2020
- by Nick Taylor
- FilmExperience
"The Furniture," by Daniel Walber. (Click on the images for magnified detail)
Ten movies were nominated for Best Production Design at the 1965 Oscars, one of the last years before the Academy retired separate categories for color and black & white. There are some striking examples on the list, from the bloated to the bizarre (Inside Daisy Clover). But when you come down to it, there’s really no looking past Doctor Zhivago.
This was David Lean’s second consecutive film to win the category, after Lawrence of Arabia three years earlier. While their visual scope is similar, the two films actually have very different preoccupations. Lawrence of Arabia is about a man determined to shape history. Doctor Zhivago is about a man trying to escape it. Understanding the difference helps us understand the design.
We begin on the eve of the Russian Revolution, a moment of great social contrasts...
Ten movies were nominated for Best Production Design at the 1965 Oscars, one of the last years before the Academy retired separate categories for color and black & white. There are some striking examples on the list, from the bloated to the bizarre (Inside Daisy Clover). But when you come down to it, there’s really no looking past Doctor Zhivago.
This was David Lean’s second consecutive film to win the category, after Lawrence of Arabia three years earlier. While their visual scope is similar, the two films actually have very different preoccupations. Lawrence of Arabia is about a man determined to shape history. Doctor Zhivago is about a man trying to escape it. Understanding the difference helps us understand the design.
We begin on the eve of the Russian Revolution, a moment of great social contrasts...
- 9/23/2020
- by Daniel Walber
- FilmExperience
Are you ready for the the penultimate episode of this super-sized Supporting Actress Smackdown season? Up next 1965. The Nominees Were: Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover), Joyce Redman And Maggie Smith (Othello), Shelley Winters (A Patch of Blue) and Peggy Wood (The Sound of Music). Once you've watched that quartet of films, send in your ballots with "1965" in the subject line and a 1 (poor) to 5 (perfection) rating for each of the five performances. You're the collective final vote. Let's meet your fellow panelists, shall we?
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- 9/22/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Maggie Smith's first Oscar nominationAs we keep promising you, the Smackdowns are much more fun if you play along at home. Up next is 1965 and there are only four movies to watch (all of which received multiple Oscar nominations) to prepare for the discussion on October 9th.
Supporting Actress Nominees Of 1965
• Ruth Gordon from Inside Daisy Clover (3 Oscar noms) - Amazon
• Maggie Smith and Joyce Redman from Othello (4 Oscar noms) - YouTube
• Shelley Winters from A Patch of Blue (5 Oscar noms)- Amazon
• Peggy Wood from The Sound of Music (10 Oscar noms) - Disney+
Once you're done watching those, send in your votes (1 to 5 hearts for each lady) by October 8th. Easy! You're then part of the Smackdown!
If you Really wanna dive into the cinema of 1965 before the event, here are key 1965 movies that are currently streaming for free.
Oscar Nominated 1965 Titles Currently Streaming...
Supporting Actress Nominees Of 1965
• Ruth Gordon from Inside Daisy Clover (3 Oscar noms) - Amazon
• Maggie Smith and Joyce Redman from Othello (4 Oscar noms) - YouTube
• Shelley Winters from A Patch of Blue (5 Oscar noms)- Amazon
• Peggy Wood from The Sound of Music (10 Oscar noms) - Disney+
Once you're done watching those, send in your votes (1 to 5 hearts for each lady) by October 8th. Easy! You're then part of the Smackdown!
If you Really wanna dive into the cinema of 1965 before the event, here are key 1965 movies that are currently streaming for free.
Oscar Nominated 1965 Titles Currently Streaming...
- 9/19/2020
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
It’s a Hollywood rags-to-riches tale seen as a cruel coming-of-age story — when Natalie Wood’s feisty street kid becomes a child star, she learns that tinsel town is not only fake, but oppressively evil as well. Cut off from her dotty mom (Ruth Gordon) and surrounded by the sinister minions of studio head Swan (Christopher Plummer), Daisy Clover finds that major stardom is hollow and dispiriting. Gavin Lambert & Robert Mulligan’s beautifully made movie does everything but make an audience feel good, especially when the dazzled Daisy falls in love with a sexually dishonest dreamboat matinee idol (Robert Redford). It’s a great picture and also a big downer.
Inside Daisy Clover
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 128 min. / Street Date May 12, 2020 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall, Katharine Bard, Peter Helm, Betty Harford, Harold Gould.
Cinematography: Charles Lang...
Inside Daisy Clover
Blu-ray
Warner Archive Collection
1965 / Color / 2:35 widescreen / 128 min. / Street Date May 12, 2020 / available through the WBshop / 21.99
Starring: Natalie Wood, Christopher Plummer, Robert Redford, Ruth Gordon, Roddy McDowall, Katharine Bard, Peter Helm, Betty Harford, Harold Gould.
Cinematography: Charles Lang...
- 5/26/2020
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
Natalie Wood and Robert Redford in Inside Daisy Clover is now available on Blu-ray From Warner Archive. Ordering info can be found Here
“You’re Gonna Hear from Me,” 15-year-old gamine Daisy Clover sings from the silver screen to an adoring public, although in the 1930s, “star treatment” can go all the way from being discovered to being discarded. Natalie Wood plays the title role with gusto in this blend of Hollywood stardust and melodrama from the producer/director team (Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan) that had already sublimely showcased her in Love with the Proper Stranger. Also heard from are Wood’s costars Robert Redford (as the vain movie star who weds Daisy) and Ruth Gordon (as Daisy’s mother), both winning Golden Globes® for their work here (Gordon earned an Oscar nomination as well).
Natalie Wood plays the title role in this tale of a 1930s child...
“You’re Gonna Hear from Me,” 15-year-old gamine Daisy Clover sings from the silver screen to an adoring public, although in the 1930s, “star treatment” can go all the way from being discovered to being discarded. Natalie Wood plays the title role with gusto in this blend of Hollywood stardust and melodrama from the producer/director team (Alan J. Pakula and Robert Mulligan) that had already sublimely showcased her in Love with the Proper Stranger. Also heard from are Wood’s costars Robert Redford (as the vain movie star who weds Daisy) and Ruth Gordon (as Daisy’s mother), both winning Golden Globes® for their work here (Gordon earned an Oscar nomination as well).
Natalie Wood plays the title role in this tale of a 1930s child...
- 5/21/2020
- by Tom Stockman
- WeAreMovieGeeks.com
Since Natalie Wood’s untimely death in 1981, theories have swirled around what happened and if anyone could’ve been responsible for her drowning. Now, her daughter, Natasha Gregson Wagner, decided to take control of the narrative around her mother’s death in Laurent Bouzereau’s new documentary, “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.”
“In 2012, I became a mom, so it started to become very important to me that I take a little bit of a hold of the narrative and diffuse some of the noise and shine a light on all of the amazing qualities about my mom that not everybody knows,” Wagner told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered.
Bouzereau says he was approached by Wagner to do a documentary about her mother, and he was astounded at how much material there was to work with.
Also Read: Natalie Wood's Yacht Captain Believes...
“In 2012, I became a mom, so it started to become very important to me that I take a little bit of a hold of the narrative and diffuse some of the noise and shine a light on all of the amazing qualities about my mom that not everybody knows,” Wagner told TheWrap’s Beatrice Verhoeven at the Sundance Film Festival, where the film premiered.
Bouzereau says he was approached by Wagner to do a documentary about her mother, and he was astounded at how much material there was to work with.
Also Read: Natalie Wood's Yacht Captain Believes...
- 5/5/2020
- by Beatrice Verhoeven
- The Wrap
Actress Natalie Wood grew up, almost literally, onscreen. From her first credited role as little Margaret Ludwig in 1946’s “Tomorrow is Forever,” as the defiant Judy in 1955’s “Rebel Without a Cause,” and to the married Carol in 1969’s “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” Wood embodied all the stages of not just growing up, but growing up as a woman. Much has been written about her, and nearly every year on the anniversary of her death the Lapd brings up her tragic drowning in the water off Catalina Island.
It is these tragic circumstances that immediately color HBO’s new documentary, “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.” Natasha Gregson-Wagner, Wood’s daughter, is the narrator and entry into Wood’s inner circle of husbands, friends, and children, hoping to tell more about the actress than just how she died, and it’s a valid crusade. Wood’s life has...
It is these tragic circumstances that immediately color HBO’s new documentary, “Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind.” Natasha Gregson-Wagner, Wood’s daughter, is the narrator and entry into Wood’s inner circle of husbands, friends, and children, hoping to tell more about the actress than just how she died, and it’s a valid crusade. Wood’s life has...
- 5/5/2020
- by Kristen Lopez
- Indiewire
“I feel that this documentary is definitive documentary of her life you know, and my book is the definitive deep dive into our relationship, but I also talk about the night she died and the sheriff’s department reopening the case, I get into that in the book as well, and I just think this narrative of fiction that has been peddled, it’s time for that to stop now.”
Those are the determined words of Natasha Gregson Wagner, daughter of the late Natalie Wood, in talking to me recently about her new film for which she is not only a producer but also an on-camera guide and interviewer in exploring the career, life and yes death of her famous mother, who died at age 43 while on a weekend boating excursion to Catalina Island in late November 1981. That mysterious death, in which Wood was found floating in the shallow surf,...
Those are the determined words of Natasha Gregson Wagner, daughter of the late Natalie Wood, in talking to me recently about her new film for which she is not only a producer but also an on-camera guide and interviewer in exploring the career, life and yes death of her famous mother, who died at age 43 while on a weekend boating excursion to Catalina Island in late November 1981. That mysterious death, in which Wood was found floating in the shallow surf,...
- 5/1/2020
- by Pete Hammond
- Deadline Film + TV
Robert Redford has become a towering institution in Hollywood. After winning a Golden Globe as Most Promising Newcomer following his performance in the 1965 film Inside Daisy Clover, Redford has turned in one iconic movie performance after another. By 1980, Redford moved behind the camera to helm the Oscar-winning Ordinary People, beginning a new chapter as a film director.
Related: Robert Redford's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes
In 1981, Redford founded the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah as a means of assisting young independent filmmakers through the rigors of the Hollywood studio system. Despite never winning an acting Oscar, Redford was given an Honorary Academy Award in 2002 for his lasting contributions to cinema. Speaking of, here are Robert Redford's 10 Best Movie Roles!
Related: Robert Redford's 10 Best Movies, According To Rotten Tomatoes
In 1981, Redford founded the Sundance Institute in Park City, Utah as a means of assisting young independent filmmakers through the rigors of the Hollywood studio system. Despite never winning an acting Oscar, Redford was given an Honorary Academy Award in 2002 for his lasting contributions to cinema. Speaking of, here are Robert Redford's 10 Best Movie Roles!
- 4/21/2020
- ScreenRant.com
When it comes to Natalie Wood: What Remains Behind, what you see is what you get. Zipping by at a manageable 100 minutes, established producer and documentarian Laurent Bouzereau pays proper tribute to Natalie Wood, the movie star who perished at the young age of 43 in a boat accident off the coast of California.
There will be no grand revelations here, no shocking moments. Guided through her mother’s impressive life by daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, the documentary focuses primarily on the good that Wood left behind. Famous as a child, Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko had her name changed to “Natalie Wood” by producer William Goetz in honor of director Sam Wood. You may remember the young starlet as the girl in Miracle on 34th Street.
By the time Wood was nineteen years old, she was married to matinee star Robert Wagner, called “Rj” by his friends. They would divorce five years later,...
There will be no grand revelations here, no shocking moments. Guided through her mother’s impressive life by daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner, the documentary focuses primarily on the good that Wood left behind. Famous as a child, Natalia Nikolaevna Zakharenko had her name changed to “Natalie Wood” by producer William Goetz in honor of director Sam Wood. You may remember the young starlet as the girl in Miracle on 34th Street.
By the time Wood was nineteen years old, she was married to matinee star Robert Wagner, called “Rj” by his friends. They would divorce five years later,...
- 2/2/2020
- by Dan Mecca
- The Film Stage
Natalie Wood would’ve celebrated her 81st birthday on July 20, 2019. A former child actress who racked up three Oscar nominations before she was 25, Wood’s life ended in a tragedy that often overshadows her movie career. Yet many of her titles remain classics, so in honor of her birthday, let’s take a look back at 15 of her greatest films, ranked worst to best.
Born in 1938 in San Francisco, Wood snagged her first starring role when she was just nine years old in the holiday classic “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947), playing a precocious girl who tugs on Santa Claus’ beard. She earned her first Oscar nomination when she was 17 for the juvenile delinquent drama “Rebel Without a Cause” (Best Supporting Actress in 1955), which made an icon out of James Dean, who died before its release. Wood added two more Best Actress bids to her resume with the romantic melodramas “Splendor in the Grass...
Born in 1938 in San Francisco, Wood snagged her first starring role when she was just nine years old in the holiday classic “Miracle on 34th Street” (1947), playing a precocious girl who tugs on Santa Claus’ beard. She earned her first Oscar nomination when she was 17 for the juvenile delinquent drama “Rebel Without a Cause” (Best Supporting Actress in 1955), which made an icon out of James Dean, who died before its release. Wood added two more Best Actress bids to her resume with the romantic melodramas “Splendor in the Grass...
- 7/20/2019
- by Chris Beachum and Zach Laws
- Gold Derby
Oscar-winning film composer and symphony orchestra conductor Andre Previn died Thursday at his home in Manhattan, his manager confirmed to the New York Times. He was 89.
The former enfant terrible of motion picture scoring and accomplished jazz pianist was honored with four Academy Awards. He won the first two, for best scoring of a musical picture (a category that has since been retired), for “Gigi” and “Porgy & Bess” in 1958 and 1959, respectively, while still in his 20s. He then won two for best adaptation or treatment (another retired sub-category) in 1963 and 1964 for “Irma la Douce” and “My Fair Lady,” respectively.
He later abandoned films to conduct such esteemed orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Previn’s jazz influence was pianist Art Tatum and, from the age of 12, he developed a proficiency in jazz piano, which led to his first film assignment at age 16, while still a...
The former enfant terrible of motion picture scoring and accomplished jazz pianist was honored with four Academy Awards. He won the first two, for best scoring of a musical picture (a category that has since been retired), for “Gigi” and “Porgy & Bess” in 1958 and 1959, respectively, while still in his 20s. He then won two for best adaptation or treatment (another retired sub-category) in 1963 and 1964 for “Irma la Douce” and “My Fair Lady,” respectively.
He later abandoned films to conduct such esteemed orchestras as the London Symphony Orchestra and the Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Previn’s jazz influence was pianist Art Tatum and, from the age of 12, he developed a proficiency in jazz piano, which led to his first film assignment at age 16, while still a...
- 2/28/2019
- by Richard Natale
- Variety Film + TV
What are two individualistic, highly motivated movie stars supposed to do when faced with an unimaginative studio system eager to misuse their talents? Natalie Wood and Steve McQueen collaborate with a great writer, director and producer for an urban romance with an eye on the sexual double standard. It’s a hybrid production: a gritty drama that’s also a calculated career move.
Love with the Proper Stranger
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1963 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / Street Date September 19, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Tom Bosley, Herschel Bernardi, Harvey Lembeck, Agusta Ciolli, Nina Varela, Marilyn Chris, Richard Dysart, Arlene Golonka, Tony Mordente, Nobu McCarthy, Richard Mulligan, Vic Tayback, Dyanne Thorne, Val Avery.
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Film Editor: Aaron Stell
Original Music: Elmer Bernstein
Written by Arnold Schulman
Produced by Alan J. Pakula
Directed by Robert Mulligan
1963’s Love with the Proper Stranger is...
Love with the Proper Stranger
Blu-ray
Kl Studio Classics
1963 / B&W / 1:85 widescreen / 100 min. / Street Date September 19, 2017 / available through Kino Lorber / 29.95
Starring: Natalie Wood, Steve McQueen, Edie Adams, Tom Bosley, Herschel Bernardi, Harvey Lembeck, Agusta Ciolli, Nina Varela, Marilyn Chris, Richard Dysart, Arlene Golonka, Tony Mordente, Nobu McCarthy, Richard Mulligan, Vic Tayback, Dyanne Thorne, Val Avery.
Cinematography: Milton Krasner
Film Editor: Aaron Stell
Original Music: Elmer Bernstein
Written by Arnold Schulman
Produced by Alan J. Pakula
Directed by Robert Mulligan
1963’s Love with the Proper Stranger is...
- 9/9/2017
- by Glenn Erickson
- Trailers from Hell
All week long our writers will debate: Which was the greatest film year of the past half century. Click here for a complete list of our essays. How to decide in the grand scheme of things which film year stands above all others? History gives us no clear methodology to unravel this thorny but extremely important question. Is it the year with the highest average score of movies? So a year that averages out to a B + might be the winner over a field strewn with B’s, despite a few A +’s. Or do a few masterpieces lift up a year so far that whatever else happened beyond those three or four films is of no consequence? Both measures are worthy, and the winner by either of those would certainly be a year not to be sneezed at. But I contend the only true measure of a year’s...
- 4/27/2015
- by Richard Rushfield
- Hitfix
Young Robert Redford and politics: 'The Candidate' and 'All the President's Men' (photo: Robert Redford as Bob Woodward in 'All the President's Men') A young Robert Redford can be seen The Candidate, All the President's Men, Three Days of the Condor, and Downhill Racer as Turner Classic Movies' Redford series comes to a close this evening. The world of politics is the focus of the first three films, each one of them well-regarded box-office hits. The last title, which shows that politics is part of life no matter what, is set in the world of competitive sports. 'The Candidate' In the Michael Ritichie-directed The Candidate (1972), Robert Redford plays idealistic liberal Democrat Bob McKay, who, with no chance of winning, is convinced to run against the Republican incumbent in a fight for a California seat in Congress. See, McKay is too handsome. Too young. Too liberal.
- 1/28/2015
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Robert Redford is one of the greatest movie stars of his generation, and it's great to see him appear in his first real blockbuster. He's had big movies, sure, but Captain America: The Winter Soldier is by far his biggest. He's not the lead in the Marvel movie, but he has a very substantial role as S.H.I.E.L.D. and World Security Council official Alexander Pierce. A lot of younger audiences flocking to the Captain America sequel might not be too familiar with Redford, either as actor, Oscar-winning director or founder of the Sundance Film Festival and Institute. Hopefully they'll be inspired by his stint as Pierce to seek out his past work, from last year's acclaimed All Is Lost back to his breakout performance in 1965's Inside Daisy Clover. To...
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- 4/4/2014
- by affiliates@fandango.com
- Fandango
Robert Redford is one of the movie stars of our time, yet I would contend that he’s always been an underrated actor. There are a host of reasons for that, and they feed into each other in subtle, at times mythic ways. You could say, on the one hand, that Redford was too golden-boy pretty (always a surefire way to not get nearly the respect you deserve), or that he was too understated as a screen presence, or that he was too openly skeptical of the Hollywood game. Redford had his first major big-screen role in 1965, in Inside Daisy Clover,...
- 11/30/2013
- by Owen Gleiberman
- EW - Inside Movies
Marlene Dietrich Grandson J. Michael Riva, Robert Clatworthy, and Harper Goff: Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame 2014 Production Designers Robert Clatworthy, Harper Goff, and J. Michael Riva will be posthumously inducted into the Art Directors Guild Hall of Fame at the 18th Art Directors Guild Awards ceremony, to be held on February 8, 2014, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. (Photo: Production designer J. Michael Riva.) J. Michael Riva J. Michael Riva (1948-2012), grandson of Marlene Dietrich (The Blue Angel, Shanghai Express, A Foreign Affair), was production designer for Stuart Rosenberg / Robert Redford’s 1980 socially conscious drama Brubaker. Later on, Redford hired Riva as the art director for Ordinary People, also released in 1980. Riva’s other production design credits include the Lethal Weapon movies starring Mel Gibson and Danny Glover; A Few Good Men (1992), with Tom Cruise, Jack Nicholson, and Demi Moore; The Pursuit of Happyness (2006), with Will Smith; Spider-Man 3 (2007), with Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst,...
- 9/12/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Natalie Wood: Hot Hollywood star in the ’60s - TCM schedule on August 18, 2013 See previous post: “Natalie Wood Movies: From loving Warren Beatty to stripping like Gypsy Rose Lee.” 3:00 Am The Star (1952). Director: Stuart Heisler. Cast: Bette Davis, Sterling Hayden, Natalie Wood, Warner Anderson, Minor Watson, June Travis, Paul Frees, Robert Warrick, Barbara Lawrence, Fay Baker, Herb Vigran, Marie Blake, Sam Harris, Marcia Mae Jones. Bw-90 mins. 4:30 Am A Cry In The Night (1956). Director: Frank Tuttle. Cast: Edmond O’Brien, Brian Donlevy, Natalie Wood. Bw-75 mins. 6:00 Am West Side Story (1961). Director: Robert Wise. Cast: Natalie Wood, Richard Beymer, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno, George Chakiris, Simon Oakland, Ned Glass, William Bramley, Tucker Smith, Tony Mordente, David Winters, Eliot Feld, John Bert Michaels, David Bean, Robert Banas, Anthony ‘Scooter’ Teague, Harvey Evans aka Harvey Hohnecker, Tommy Abbott, Susan Oakes, Gina Trikonis, Carole D’Andrea, Jose De Vega, Jay Norman,...
- 8/18/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Natalie Wood movies: From loving Warren Beatty to stripping like Gypsy Rose Lee Three-time Academy Award nominee Natalie Wood, one of the biggest Hollywood stars of the ’60s, is Turner Classic Movies’ "Summer Under the Stars" performer today, August 18, 2013. TCM is currently showing Elia Kazan’s Splendor in the Grass (1961), a romantic drama written for the screen by playwright William Inge (Picnic, Bus Stop). Wood is fine as a young woman who loses her emotional balance after she’s seduced and abandoned by the son (Warren Beatty) of a wealthy family in Kansas shortly before the Great Depression. For her efforts, she received a Best Actress Oscar nomination. (Sophia Loren was that year’s winner, for the Italian-made Two Women.) (See “TCM movie schedule: Natalie Wood Hot Hollywood Star.” Next in line is Richard Quine’s feeble attempt at screwball comedy, Sex and the Single Girl (1964), a movie that promises much more than it delivers,...
- 8/18/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Natalie Wood death: From "accidental drowning" to "drowning and other undetermined factors" Natalie Wood died on November 29, 1981. Her body was found floating about one mile from Catalina Island, located just south of Los Angeles County. According to a County coroner’s report publicly released today — though officially revised in June 2012 — at the time of her death Natalie Wood, a three-time Academy Award nominee and the star of the multiple Oscar-winning musical West Side Story, had several bruises on her body that might have been the result of injuries suffered before she entered the water. (See also: "Natalie Wood Death: Sensational Rumors Continue.") [Photo: Natalie Wood ca. 1970.] "With the presence of fresh bruises in the upper extremities in the right forearm/left wrist area and a small scratch in the anterior neck, this examiner is unable to exclude non-accidental mechanism causing these injuries," wrote chief medical examiner Dr. Lakshmanan Sathyavagiswaran. "The location of the bruises,...
- 1/14/2013
- by Andre Soares
- Alt Film Guide
Former "7th Heaven" star Barry Watson and longtime girlfriend Natasha Gregson Wagner have welcomed a baby girl, reports People. Clover Clementyne Watson came into the world Wednesday, May 30.
Her unusual first name stems from the 1965 film "Inside Daisy Clover," which starred Natasha's late mother, actress Natalie Wood. Clover is Natasha's first child, but the third for Watson, who has two sons, Oliver, 7, and Felix, 4, from his previous marriage to Tracy Hutson.
The couple tells People, "We are overwhelmed with love and joy at the birth of our daughter Clover Clementyne Watson."
Congratulations to Barry and Natasha on their new addition! ...
Her unusual first name stems from the 1965 film "Inside Daisy Clover," which starred Natasha's late mother, actress Natalie Wood. Clover is Natasha's first child, but the third for Watson, who has two sons, Oliver, 7, and Felix, 4, from his previous marriage to Tracy Hutson.
The couple tells People, "We are overwhelmed with love and joy at the birth of our daughter Clover Clementyne Watson."
Congratulations to Barry and Natasha on their new addition! ...
- 6/5/2012
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Pop2it
Late actress Natalie Wood's daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner has become a first-time mum at 41.
Wagner and her longtime boyfriend, actor Barry Watson, welcomed daughter Clover Clementyne last week.
A statement from the couple to People.com reads: "We are overwhelmed with love and joy at the birth of our daughter."
The baby's first name was reportedly inspired by Inside Daisy Clover, a Wood film from 1965.
Clover is Wagner's first child; Watson has two sons from his marriage to Tracy Hutson.
Wagner and her longtime boyfriend, actor Barry Watson, welcomed daughter Clover Clementyne last week.
A statement from the couple to People.com reads: "We are overwhelmed with love and joy at the birth of our daughter."
The baby's first name was reportedly inspired by Inside Daisy Clover, a Wood film from 1965.
Clover is Wagner's first child; Watson has two sons from his marriage to Tracy Hutson.
- 6/5/2012
- WENN
If you feel like it was just yesterday that we announced Natasha Gregson Wagner's pregnancy with Barry Watson's child, that's because it almost was. After revealing that the surprising duo were expecting last month, E! News confirms that Natasha gave birth to a daughter on May 30. What's her name? World, say hello to Clover Clementyne Watson. Interesting name, right? A rep for Wagner tells us that her baby girl's name was inspired Inside Daisy Clover, a film starring Natasha's late mother, Natalie Wood. This is the first child for Wagner and third for Watson who has two sons Oliver, 7, and Felix, 4, from his prior marriage to Tracy...
- 6/5/2012
- E! Online
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It’s a girl!
Natasha Gregson Wagner and her longtime boyfriend, actor Barry Watson, welcomed a daughter on Wednesday, May 30, the actress’s rep confirms exclusively to People.
“We are overwhelmed with love and joy at the birth of our daughter Clover Clementyne Watson,” the couple tells People of their new little girl, who weighed 7 lbs., 2 oz. and measured 19½ inches long.
The baby’s first name was inspired by Inside Daisy Clover, a 1965 film starring Wagner’s late mother, the legendary actress Natalie Wood.
Clover is the first child for Wagner, 41, whose father is...
It’s a girl!
Natasha Gregson Wagner and her longtime boyfriend, actor Barry Watson, welcomed a daughter on Wednesday, May 30, the actress’s rep confirms exclusively to People.
“We are overwhelmed with love and joy at the birth of our daughter Clover Clementyne Watson,” the couple tells People of their new little girl, who weighed 7 lbs., 2 oz. and measured 19½ inches long.
The baby’s first name was inspired by Inside Daisy Clover, a 1965 film starring Wagner’s late mother, the legendary actress Natalie Wood.
Clover is the first child for Wagner, 41, whose father is...
- 6/4/2012
- by Sarah
- People - CelebrityBabies
George Valentin (Jean Dujardin) has had it with the movies in "The Artist"Over at Fandor's Keyframe blog I'll be musing about the Oscar race on a biweekly basis. This week's topic is the unusual abundance of movies about movies in this year's Oscar race from Marilyn Monroe (My Week With Marilyn) to George Melies (Hugo) to Hollywood's seismic sound shift in the late 20s (The Artist). But one thing I didn't dwell on too much in the article (which I hope you'll go and read!) is the lack of Oscars won for movies about movies.
Everyone predicting a win for The Artist (2011) before the nominations are even announced should consider the following list and sobering fact: No movie about movies has ever won Best Picture.
Movies About Movies: How Do They Do With Oscar?
(Best Picture Nominees are in red)
Janet Gaynor (already an Oscar winner) was nominated again...
Everyone predicting a win for The Artist (2011) before the nominations are even announced should consider the following list and sobering fact: No movie about movies has ever won Best Picture.
Movies About Movies: How Do They Do With Oscar?
(Best Picture Nominees are in red)
Janet Gaynor (already an Oscar winner) was nominated again...
- 11/23/2011
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Editor's Note: This is the final entry in our Oscar Horrors miniseries. We really hope you enjoyed all 17 entries -- full index at the bottom of this post. Should we do it again next year? (Yes, there are more nominations afforded to the creepy-crawly films. The Oscars have been around for 84 years after all...) -Nathaniel
Here Lies... Ruth Gordon's Oscar-winning turn in Rosemary's Baby who drugged her competition and dragged them to hell in 1968.
Robert here, with a look back at one of Oscar's best Best Supporting Actress decisions. You probably already know that Ruth Gordon was a real Hollywood veteran when she won her Oscar for Rosemary's Baby, having been in the showbiz business ever since appearing as a picture baby in 1915 and taking a stage role as one of Peter Pan's lost boys. Even if you didn't know that, it's the sort of thing that seems right.
Here Lies... Ruth Gordon's Oscar-winning turn in Rosemary's Baby who drugged her competition and dragged them to hell in 1968.
Robert here, with a look back at one of Oscar's best Best Supporting Actress decisions. You probably already know that Ruth Gordon was a real Hollywood veteran when she won her Oscar for Rosemary's Baby, having been in the showbiz business ever since appearing as a picture baby in 1915 and taking a stage role as one of Peter Pan's lost boys. Even if you didn't know that, it's the sort of thing that seems right.
- 10/31/2011
- by Robert
- FilmExperience
By Sean O’Connell
Hollywoodnews.com: The legendary Christopher Plummer, who has been earning raves for his performance in Mike Mills’ “Beginners” as a widower embracing his homosexuality, will receive the “Hollywood Supporting Actor Award” at this year’s 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment. The event is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 24, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Plummer, an Academy Award nominee for his recent performance in “The Last Station,” has been enjoying even more awards chatter as of late for his turn as Hal, a closeted gay man who didn’t choose to come out until his wife passed away … much to the surprise of his son (Ewan McGregor).
Plummer, who can be seen in “Barrymore” and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” later this year, will be on hand to accept the award.
His bio is below:
Christopher Plummer...
Hollywoodnews.com: The legendary Christopher Plummer, who has been earning raves for his performance in Mike Mills’ “Beginners” as a widower embracing his homosexuality, will receive the “Hollywood Supporting Actor Award” at this year’s 15th Annual Hollywood Film Festival and Hollywood Film Awards, presented by Starz Entertainment. The event is scheduled for Monday, Oct. 24, at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills.
Plummer, an Academy Award nominee for his recent performance in “The Last Station,” has been enjoying even more awards chatter as of late for his turn as Hal, a closeted gay man who didn’t choose to come out until his wife passed away … much to the surprise of his son (Ewan McGregor).
Plummer, who can be seen in “Barrymore” and “The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo” later this year, will be on hand to accept the award.
His bio is below:
Christopher Plummer...
- 9/26/2011
- by Sean O'Connell
- Hollywoodnews.com
The internet is a wonderful thing, and every day something new appears which proves this to be so.
Recently World of Wonder (via Boy Culture) happened upon a recent batch of videos uploaded to YouTube that are unlikely to have been seen by many in the forty six years since they were shot in and around Hollywood in the Summer of 1965.
The uploader states that these videos were given to personally by Roddy McDowall, who shot these silent films in and around Hollywood and his house on Mailbu Beach. It’s an intriguing, if a touch voyeuristic, look at the movie stars of the day just hanging out as well as the landscape of Hollywood itself.
It is certainly strange to see David O. Selznick pouring over a crossword or Ed Wynn enjoying the sunset next to the remains of a house which has fallen down the Hollywood hills but...
Recently World of Wonder (via Boy Culture) happened upon a recent batch of videos uploaded to YouTube that are unlikely to have been seen by many in the forty six years since they were shot in and around Hollywood in the Summer of 1965.
The uploader states that these videos were given to personally by Roddy McDowall, who shot these silent films in and around Hollywood and his house on Mailbu Beach. It’s an intriguing, if a touch voyeuristic, look at the movie stars of the day just hanging out as well as the landscape of Hollywood itself.
It is certainly strange to see David O. Selznick pouring over a crossword or Ed Wynn enjoying the sunset next to the remains of a house which has fallen down the Hollywood hills but...
- 9/6/2011
- by Jon Lyus
- HeyUGuys.co.uk
Weirder, wilder, and more unruly than I remember, The Parallax View (1974), remains a deeply paranoid conspiracy drama. Directed by Alan J. Pakula, the film feels like a dry run for All the President's Men, which Pakula made two years later.Pakula began as a producer, working with director Robert Mulligan, for 1957's Fear Strikes Out, a character drama starring Anthony Perkins as a baseball player, followed by To Kill a Mockingbird, Love with the Proper Stranger, Baby the Rain Must Fall, Inside Daisy Clover, Up the Down Staircase, and The Stalking Moon; most are respectable dramas (the last was an odd little Western) during a fairly bleak and dry period in American cinema. Finally, Pakula got behind the camera as a director at the age...
- 4/19/2011
- Screen Anarchy
The cunning, mustached Kid Twist took part in one of the greatest cons to grace the silver screen in The Sting. But Paul Newman and Robert Redford wouldn't have had a partner in crime if it wasn't for character actor Harold Gould who sadly passed away over the weekend at 86 years-old. The actor died on September 11th after a struggle with prostate cancer. Before The Sting, Gould previously found success alongside Newman in Harper and with Redford in Inside Daisy Clover. The actor gained even more fame by appearing in over 100 TV series incuding "Golden Girls," "Hogan's Heroes," "Hawaii Five-0," and, perhaps most notably, "Rhoda." More recently Mr. Gould found consistent work as the resident grandfather in several family films including Disney's Freaky Friday remake and Stuart Little. In addition, Gould shared the screen with Robin Williams as a mental hospital patient in Patch Adams. According to The Washington ...
- 9/14/2010
- by Ethan Anderton
- firstshowing.net
Oh. My. God. A Natalie Wood Retro right here in NYC next week. Wheeeee. I'm bouncing up and down in my chair as I type. (I'll fix the resultant typos later).
If you've never seen Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice you'd be insane to miss it. "Oh, Insight!" I'd also suggest catching Inside Daisy Clover because it's a) really weird and b) all about Hollywood and c) they totally nominated the wrong supporting actress from it for the Oscar.
There's also the opportunity to see Rebel Without a Cause, Gypsy, This Property is Condemned or West Side Story on the big screen if you haven't. I have so I'll be trying to catch the ones I haven't laid eyes on yet: Tomorrow is Forever (1946) with Claudette Colbert, the controversial hard to find Kings Go Forth (1958) with Frank Sinatra and Peeper (1975) with Michael Caine. Why can't this series last longer than a week.
If you've never seen Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice you'd be insane to miss it. "Oh, Insight!" I'd also suggest catching Inside Daisy Clover because it's a) really weird and b) all about Hollywood and c) they totally nominated the wrong supporting actress from it for the Oscar.
There's also the opportunity to see Rebel Without a Cause, Gypsy, This Property is Condemned or West Side Story on the big screen if you haven't. I have so I'll be trying to catch the ones I haven't laid eyes on yet: Tomorrow is Forever (1946) with Claudette Colbert, the controversial hard to find Kings Go Forth (1958) with Frank Sinatra and Peeper (1975) with Michael Caine. Why can't this series last longer than a week.
- 8/14/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
I didn’t really know I liked Natalie Wood until about a week ago. Setting into the Warner Brothers Natalie Wood Collection I had no real idea what to expect. I’d already seen Inside Daisy Clover and Love with the Proper Stranger, and to be honest I only liked the latter. So her track record with me was 50/50. When I put those films up against all the other classic cinema I enjoyed, Inside Daisy Clover just seemed to fall short. Luckily, in the Natalie Wood Collection the quality is a pretty even split.
Bombers B-52 (1957)
I felt that the inclusion of Bombers B-52 in the Natalie Wood Collection mislead me. Considering the plot revolves around Sgt. Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden) and his grudge against Col. Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) – why is this considered a Natalie Wood film? Her role, as Brennan’s daughter, may get a maximum screen...
Bombers B-52 (1957)
I felt that the inclusion of Bombers B-52 in the Natalie Wood Collection mislead me. Considering the plot revolves around Sgt. Chuck Brennan (Karl Malden) and his grudge against Col. Jim Herlihy (Efrem Zimbalist, Jr.) – why is this considered a Natalie Wood film? Her role, as Brennan’s daughter, may get a maximum screen...
- 2/7/2009
- by Lex Walker
- JustPressPlay.net
Collections ~ It's Tuesday so there are new box sets available highlighting everything from tired hockey masked killers (you know who) to highly respected thespians (Peter Sellers and Alec Guiness) but the big ... make that B-i-g... deal for The Film Experience is the "Natalie Wood Collection" which includes six films. I haven't seen Bombers B-52 or Cash McCall but even if they're bad you still get to stare at her for two hours. Her beauty justifies most any running time.
Natalie Wood *swoon*
The other four are more notable players in her filmography. There's the Edith Head costumed Helen Gurley Brown comedy Sex and the Single Girl (1964) and two true classics: the musical Gypsy (1962) and the legendary 'Warren Beatty Destroys Lives!' teen angst of the unbeatable Splendor in the Grass (1961). Adventurous movie fanatics might be most interested in getting a good long look at the underseen and idiosyncratic inside...
Natalie Wood *swoon*
The other four are more notable players in her filmography. There's the Edith Head costumed Helen Gurley Brown comedy Sex and the Single Girl (1964) and two true classics: the musical Gypsy (1962) and the legendary 'Warren Beatty Destroys Lives!' teen angst of the unbeatable Splendor in the Grass (1961). Adventurous movie fanatics might be most interested in getting a good long look at the underseen and idiosyncratic inside...
- 2/3/2009
- by NATHANIEL R
- FilmExperience
Blu-Ray Rating: 4.0/5.0 Chicago – When I hear phrases like “screen icon” or “Hollywood legend,” one of the first people that I think of is Natalie Wood. Six of the famous star’s films have been compiled for the “Natalie Wood Collection,” a great starter set for classic movie buffs intrigued by this timeless star or collector’s looking to enhance their catalog.
Gone way too soon, Wood appeared in 56 film and television roles, becoming an internationally recognized star before she was even old enough to drive. Wood first appeared on screen when she was only five and won acclaim when she was only nine for her work in “Miracle on 34th Street”. She would go on to start in irrefutable classics like “Rebel Without a Cause” and “West Side Story”. She was nominated for three Academy Awards and seven Golden Globes, winning three of the latter.
One of Wood’s Oscar...
Gone way too soon, Wood appeared in 56 film and television roles, becoming an internationally recognized star before she was even old enough to drive. Wood first appeared on screen when she was only five and won acclaim when she was only nine for her work in “Miracle on 34th Street”. She would go on to start in irrefutable classics like “Rebel Without a Cause” and “West Side Story”. She was nominated for three Academy Awards and seven Golden Globes, winning three of the latter.
One of Wood’s Oscar...
- 2/3/2009
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
Robert Mulligan, who earned an Oscar nomination for directing 1962's To Kill a Mockingbird, died from heart disease Saturday, Dec. 20, in his Connecticut home. He was 83.
Though not a household name, Mulligan was considered one of the premier filmmakers of his era, directing five actors to Oscar nominations: Gregory Peck and Mary Badham (To Kill a Mockingbird), Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger), Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover) and ...
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Though not a household name, Mulligan was considered one of the premier filmmakers of his era, directing five actors to Oscar nominations: Gregory Peck and Mary Badham (To Kill a Mockingbird), Natalie Wood (Love with the Proper Stranger), Ruth Gordon (Inside Daisy Clover) and ...
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- 12/22/2008
- by Joyce Eng
- TVGuide - Breaking News
Director Robert Mulligan, beloved by actors for his low-key style and temperament behind the camera, has passed away at age 83. Mulligan began directing in live TV productions in the 1950s but graduated to feature films with the acclaimed production of Fear Strikes Out. His career highlight was helming the 1962 classic screen adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird for which he was nominated for an Oscar. Under his direction, star Gregory Peck won the Best Actor Academy Award for his immortal performance as Atticus Finch in the film. Mulligan never directed blockbuster hits, but several of his productions proved to be extremely popular with audiences and critics. Among them: Come September, Love With the Proper Stranger, Baby, The Rain Must Fall (the latter two starring Steve McQueen), Up the Down Staircase, Summer of '42 and the bittersweet comedy Same Time, Next Year. However, some of his best work remained under-rated, including...
- 12/22/2008
- by nospam@example.com (Cinema Retro)
- Cinemaretro.com
He wasn't a household name, but Robert Mulligan crafted what is undeniably one of the greatest films of all time: To Kill a Mockingbird. The filmmaker, who received an Oscar nomination for helming the classic 1962 adaptation of the Harper Lee novel, died of heart disease Friday at his Connecticut home. He was 83. The workman-like Mulligan was known as an actor's director, guiding Gregory Peck to an Oscar as Mockingbird's iconic Atticus Finch and working with the likes of Robert Redford, Natalie Wood, Anthony Perkins, Ellen Burstyn and Richard Gere. His credits also included Fear Strikes Out, Inside Daisy Clover, Love With the Proper Stranger, Summer of '42 and Same Time, Next Year, but...
- 12/22/2008
- E! Online
Robert Mulligan, who directed "To Kill a Mockingbird" and "Summer of '42," among other films, died Friday of heart disease at his Connecticut home. He was 83.
Mulligan received a best director Oscar nomination in 1963 for "Mockingbird."
The brother of actor Richard Mulligan, he also directed "The Great Impostor," "Love With the Proper Stranger," "Baby, the Rain Must Fall," "Inside Daisy Clover," "Up the Down Staircase" and "The Other." He also narrated "Summer of '42."
Known for his diffident nature and sensitivity toward players, Mulligan directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Natalie Wood, Ruth Gordon and Ellen Burstyn, with Peck winning the best actor Oscar for "Mockingbird."
He also elicited consistently fine performances from a range of his players, including Anthony Perkins in "Fear Strikes Out," Jennifer O'Neill in "Summer of '42," Robert Redford in "Inside Daisy Clover" and Richard Gere in "Bloodbrothers."
Mulligan earned his...
Mulligan received a best director Oscar nomination in 1963 for "Mockingbird."
The brother of actor Richard Mulligan, he also directed "The Great Impostor," "Love With the Proper Stranger," "Baby, the Rain Must Fall," "Inside Daisy Clover," "Up the Down Staircase" and "The Other." He also narrated "Summer of '42."
Known for his diffident nature and sensitivity toward players, Mulligan directed five different actors in Oscar-nominated performances: Gregory Peck, Mary Badham, Natalie Wood, Ruth Gordon and Ellen Burstyn, with Peck winning the best actor Oscar for "Mockingbird."
He also elicited consistently fine performances from a range of his players, including Anthony Perkins in "Fear Strikes Out," Jennifer O'Neill in "Summer of '42," Robert Redford in "Inside Daisy Clover" and Richard Gere in "Bloodbrothers."
Mulligan earned his...
- 12/21/2008
- by By Duane Byrge
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Gavin Lambert, the screenwriter and novelist who became an insightful chronicler of Hollywood in such works as his novel and screenplay Inside Daily Clover as well as his books On Cukor, Norma Shearer: A Life and Natalie Wood: A Life in Seven Takes, died Sunday of pulmonary fibrosis at Barlow Respiratory Hospital in Los Angeles. He was 80. The British writer, who became an American citizen in 1964, was twice nominated by both the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences and the WGA for the 1960 screen adaptation of D.H. Lawrence's Sons and Lovers, which he wrote with T.E.B. Clarke, and 1977's adaptation of the I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, which he wrote with Lewis John Carlino.
- 7/19/2005
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Robert Redford and his production company, Wildwood Enterprises, are in final negotiations to sign a two-year first-look deal with Warner Bros. Pictures. Redford has not worked at Warners for 26 years, having last starred for the studio in 1976's All the President's Men, which Wildwood produced. In fact, during Redford's 50-plus years in the film industry, the only other movies he made at Warners were the 1972 features The Candidate and Jeremiah Johnson and the 1965 feature Inside Daisy Clover. Redford founded Wildwood in 1968, and at one point it had a production deal with the Walt Disney Co. Wildwood has produced such award-winning films as Downhill Racer, The Candidate, Ordinary People, A River Runs Through It, Quiz Show and The Horse Whisperer. Redford directed the latter four films.
- 10/15/2002
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
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